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herring-buss Obs. exc. Hist.
[a. Du. haring-buis: see buss n.1]
A two- or three-masted vessel used in the herring-fishery.
1615E. S. Brit. Buss in Arb. Garner III. 636 To seek out the said Herring Busses, and to buy of them their herrings. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2684/3, 7 or 8 French Frigats and Privateers..fell in with our Herring-Busses. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. v. (1869) II. 93 The tonnage bounty upon the herring-buss fishery. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, The common fleet of herring-busses and whalers. |